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Lessons in the art of illuminating : a series of examples selected from works in the British Museum, Lambeth Palace Library, and the South Kensington Museum (1895)

Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839-1911, author · London ; Glasgow : Blackie & Son · leaf 39

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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE V. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE V. … and are now in the Art Library of the South Kensington Museum. They are much rubbed and faded, and our chromo-lithograph repre- sents this initial C as it appeared when first finished. In much of the northern work of this period — about the middle of the fifteenth al scroll-work, jrn.” It may…

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